History and hoaxes
As you might know, history is full of hoaxes, and the reason for that is the thing that especially the cases of war, history is written by winners. And when we are thinking about winners, the winning side might be changed several times during history, which makes it very difficult to find out, what happened, and why something happened? History is full of cases, where the cities have been moved, and moving the city is happening very easily.
The ruler of the state would just come to someplace and then said that people must move. Then the city was burned, and the new city would get the name of the old city. Sometimes this operation was made because of the epidemics like plaque, but there might be cases that the king just arrived in some city, and said that "was this the old Canterbury?". In those cases, people should agree with the king, or that person might just cut the heads off.
The thing is that the reason, why some city has been moved might cause that there was something, what might be embarrassing for the king. This kind of thing is fascinating, and if there could be some documents of the reasons, why the king made that kind of decision, that could give the window to diplomacy, what has been made hundreds of years ago. Why some king has ordered to move the entire city to another place?
So this is one point of view of the things. When we are thinking about the things, what is embarrassing for people, who are in control of the state, we must realize that if the orders for punishment are coming from the king, there is something that is embarrassing for the rulers of the state. The reason why the absolute monarch was above the law was that this thing made him independent.
Nobody allowed to prosecute king, and if something puts that man to the difficult position that thing must have very big power and effect to the king, because of the independency meant that king must not even answer to prosecutions. So why the king was not told some reasons, for the war his henchmen? What that person hide? There are many cases in history when some rulers have been hidden the real purpose of the military actions and persecutions in the religious mask.
The list is long and it starts the ancient Greek kings and continues to Huguenot persecutions and actions of communists, nazis and far wing radicalism in the modern days. So the thing is that religion has been a thing, what has been the reason, why people have been ordered to the army, and attack against each other. Also, kings justified their power that they were got the authority to rule countries from God and if somebody disagreed that means the blasphemy.
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